During the day we worked with all the Grade 4's and did a KaHoot! Survey! KaHoot is an online interactive quiz/survey program that we used to ask some Halloween "Would You Rather?" questions. Students made their choice and backed it up with explanations!
In the afternoon we had a bit of fun! Each portable had its own activity - crafts, games or a movie. Thank you to those who sent in food, we had some full bellies!
We finished up our haunted houses and they look wonderfully spooky! Once the students had completed their house, we brainstormed as a class what you would see, hear, smell, etc. in a haunted house. Afterwards, they had to use these details to write a FOR SALE add for their house!
This week, our Language Arts focus has been on writing, and specifically, writing Personal Narratives. A Personal Narrative is a true story about yourself and to introduce this idea we read "The Best Story Ever". This book encourages children to look at their lives and write from their memories and heart. Personal Narratives, like most stories, have Characters (who?), Setting (where? when?) and revolve around a main event (what? how? why?),Then I encouraged students to look back on their past year or more and think of a special memory. With that memory we made brain webs that explained the 5W's. In pairs, they practiced orally telling their story to a friend, practicing sequence and recalling details.
Then we took our web and put our information into a planner that includes an introduction (where we introduce the setting and characters), beginning, middle, end (of the main event/idea) and then a conclusion (that reinstates how we felt about that memory).
Next week, we will work on putting our planning into a rough draft and adding details to make our stories juicy and interesting for the reader.
In Math, we got back our patterns tests and reviewed them. Tests were then sent home to be signed and have corrections done. Most corrections were small counting errors or misreading a question, so it is great to have students double check their work! Every did quite well on the test and the class average was 88%!
In Social we have been focusing on how Alberta's fossils make our history unique and what they tell us about our land. We have been looking into what type of dinosaur fossils have been found in our province now and in the past.
The focus for the past few week in Phys. Ed has been on throwing (underhand and overhand) and catching. We took advantage of the nice weather and had a game of Bean Bag Golf outside! Students threw underhand from hole to hole in teams of four.
Inside we practiced our catching skills by playing a game of Catch Tricks. In pairs, students had to throw a ball up and before they caught it complete a trick (i.e. throw the ball up and clap twice before you catch it again). This was really funny to watch, some of their tricks were great!
Just a Few Reminders:
- Remembrance Day ceremony will be next Wednesday at 10:45am.
- There is No School Nov. 10 & 11th (Thursday & Friday next week).
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